There is a limit to how long an AI company can keep subsidizing the tokens, eventually the financial ruin ensues. Every chat request that goes to the LLM has an actual physical compute and RAM cost, which scales to hilarious levels as you keep chatting in the same thread and the context size widens. It scales to astronomical levels when the query requires high-level analytical or reasoning skills like thinking..., pondering..., bloviating..., etc. - which is exactly what enterprise users intend on doing. The Uber story made it quite clear - even some of the big techs don't have the stomach for that kind of unlimited resource drain.

Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.

At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.

Also /r/technology and /r/programming went dark only after lot's of pressure from all sides and other subs.

I don't think there is any cool down period, same thing happened when I tried to sign up on the lemmy programmers community earlier today. The thing is federation is far more complicated when you try to implement in code than what it appears. On top of that, when you try to impose generic standards to also accommodate Mastodon in the same network, the complexity goes up even several notches! It might take a while for all the bugs to get fixed and fediverse to become stable.

What's the correlation with the IPO? Are they somehow pressurized so that IPO entry means they must get rid of third party integration and similar other feature changes?